Blandine Lenoir’s new film “Juliette in Spring” is currently in theaters. What do the first spectators think of the feature film adapted from Camille Jourdy’s comic book?
The adaptation of Camille Jourdy’s comic strip “Juliette, the ghosts return in spring” is currently in cinemas. Directed by Blandien Lenoir (Annie Colère), the feature film renamed Juliette in Spring is directed by Izïa Higelin, Sophie Guillemin, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Noémie Lvovsky, Eric Caravaca, Liliane Rovère and Salif Cissé.
The film follows Juliette, a young children’s book illustrator. The latter leaves the city to reunite with her family for a few days: her father so modest that he can only express himself in jokes, her mother, a painter who enjoys life to the fullest, her beloved grandmother who is losing her grip, and her sister, a mother overwhelmed by a daily life that devours her. She also crosses paths with Pollux, a poetic and endearing young man. In this happy mess, memories and secrets will rise to the surface.
A tender and touching portrait of a woman and family which deals with strong themes such as depression, mental burden, motherhood, mourning and the unsaid.
What do the first spectators think of Juliette in the spring? With 79 ratings and 14 audience reviews, the film has an average rating of 3.2 stars out of 5.
They liked
Elisa Lifshitz rates the film 5/5 and writes: “A moving and necessary film! Camille Jourdy’s graphic novel has been adapted very accurately by Blandine Lenoir!”
For Fanchon it is: “Tender comedy which oscillates happily between melancholy and burlesque. We laugh, we cry a lot in front of this choral film which is so good!“
Plume writes: “Magnificent film, extraordinary Daroussin, a slice of life where everyone finds themselves between family secret and existential crisis without judgment. Beautiful homage to the graphic novel which finds its sources in this portrait of a broken family with stainless love. Wonderful aesthetic universe through illustration in the soft and innocent colors of childhood.”
Carole Bethuel Juliet in spring
For Mrs. Petimas “Juliette in Spring is a film that feels good, as much carried by its director and screenwriter as by its punchy actors. It’s yourself, it’s family, it’s love, it’s childhood, it’s it’s the present, the past and the future, it’s the animals… We laugh a lot, we cry just as much, we inevitably find ourselves in it a little and we come out of there, all enveloped in tenderness and re-energized for the ‘summer.”
Maud Thibault writes: “A real tenderness and a lot of humor emerges from this film. Palpable, the love is present in this endearing family which makes you want to find your own. Choral film under the direction of Blandine Lenoir who confirms her ability to make films of great humanity. Interpreted with great accuracy by very talented actors, Juliette au Printemps oscillates between the serious and the light (we laugh a lot) in a burlesque and poetic atmosphere. A gem not to be missed!”
They liked it less
Cinévore 24 rates the film 3.5/5 and writes: “A bittersweet work about the unsaid, the anxieties and the hidden desires (or not), and carried by an endearing cast and a little zany too. A touching little family and feminine chronicle, a little uneven and disjointed, but crossed by some beautiful, sincere and suspended moments.”
Carole Bethuel
Juliet in spring
Velocio from Club AlloCiné writes: “Since 2014 and “Zouzou”, a moment which saw her abandon her career as an actress to embrace that of director, Blandine Lenoir alternates between the very good and the less good: after “Zouzou”, very good, “Aurore”, rather a failure due to lack of clear choice between crazy comedy and “normal” romantic comedy, “Annie Anger”, very successful, here is “Juliette in Spring”, adapted from “Juliette, the ghosts return in spring”, a graphic novel by Camille Jourdy. (…) A film that has everything to please except that there are too many scenes which are acceptable in the context of a comic book but which are much less so in the cinema. Except that the production, too lazy, could and should have been much more sparkling. Except that we lose two important characters along the way: the cat who, at the beginning of the film, keeps falling from the roof and then, suddenly, we no longer see him; and then Pollux, the very endearing character played by Salif Cissé, of whom we would like to know what has become of him. And then, we regret to see Blandine Lenoir fall into two of the regrettable fashions of the moment: the wiggling session and the more or less scripted song that we hear from start to finish.”
For takeshi29″Blandine Lenoir has created a “French-style” dramatic comedy, the kind that ticks all the boxes of the recipe for success, with plenty to relax and a good dose of sentimentality to move. Nothing worked for me, not the beginning of a smile or a twinge of sadness, just the usual distress when faced with such formatted products.”
But the best thing is to form your own opinion. Juliet in spring is to be seen in the cinema.
